ABOUT
Neysa Page-Lieberman is a contemporary art curator, lecturer, writer, and educator with a focus on monuments & public art, feminism, African diaspora and social practice. Based in Kansas City since 2020, she curates, consults and lectures on public art at the intersection of social justice. She is the Founder & Artistic Director of Monumenta, an art and monuments initiative creating commemorative public artworks about collective action. Previously she co-founded Monuments to Movements and served as M2M’s artistic director. For nearly 15 years she was executive director of Exhibitions and Performance Spaces at Columbia College Chicago and chief curator of the Wabash Arts Corridor, a public art project in downtown Chicago. She has also designed and taught courses on curatorial theory and practice, and lectured at the Art Institute of Chicago offering public programs on the Museum’s collections.
Page-Lieberman has produced over 300 exhibitions and public art projects nationally and internationally, with recent highlights including: Kansas City’s Removal Act: The Reckoning of Andrew Jackson Monuments (2023-2024), funded through a Rocket Grant from Charlotte Street Foundation; Chicago Womxn's Suffrage Mural Series, the first public art project to commemorate the Chicago Suffrage movement (2020-2023); Inequality in Bronze: Monumental Plantation Legacies, a monument to a formerly enslaved woman named Dinah at the historic Stenton home in Philadelphia (2018 - current); a series of international mural exchanges with Sister Cities International, including Casablanca, Morocco and Toronto, Canada (2017-2019); the 1000 Wall, street artist Claudia “MadC” Walde’s largest mural to date and one of the biggest in Chicago (2018): Revolution at Point Zero: Feminist Social Practice (2017); Vacancy: Urban Interruption and (Re)generation (2015), an affiliate exhibition of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial; the nationally touring Not Ready to Make Nice: Guerrilla Girls in the Artworld and Beyond (2012-2019); and RISK: Empathy, Art and Social Practice (2014); and Vodou Riche: Contemporary Haitian Art (2008).
Neysa is the author of several publications on feminist art, art of the African disapora, social practice and public art. Most notably, she is the co-author of the Feminist Social Practice Manifesto with Melissa Potter, which is distributed as a stand-alone and as part of a larger article published in ASAP/Journal, John Hopkins University Press. Other recent publications include Feminism in Your Face: Public Art Resistance, in the anthology Where the Future Came From edited by Meg Duguid and Women Artists Are Speaking, published in Newcity. Neysa has extensively lectured and given interviews on public art & monuments with recent features including: The Occupation That Saved a Wyandot Cemetery on A People’s History of Kansas City podcast (KCUR / NPR); Building Monuments to Resemble and Represent Us, interview on Know, Be, Raise podcast; Monuments & Movements presentation at Charlotte Street Foundation, Time for a Reckoning, interview in Newcity, SpeakEasy conversations series produced by M2M, and the Constellations - Assemblies public art discussion series produced by UP Projects, London.
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